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romney, a short memory, senator mccain, who, four years ago, when running against mr. romney, attacked him for all of those layoffs. so, it depends on where you are. but, the answer to your question is, it has had a very questionable effect. >> okay. >> paul, understand why the super pacs exist. they exist because there are limits on the am of money that individuals can give to individual candidates. in a primary that is $2500 and as a result, the candidates cannot raise as much money as they need and the super pacs operate independently of the campaign, what you should have is no limit on those contributions and the money would go inside the campaigns where they would be better run and organized along with the campaign rather than running alongside of them. >> colin, all the campaigns have the ability to marshall the pax if they want. does it increase political competition by making it easier for a few backers to get behind somebody who otherwise would not be able to make 4,000 phone calls, say, to get $2500 from each individual donor? the limits you have -- candidate
romney, a short memory, senator mccain, who, four years ago, when running against mr. romney, attacked him for all of those layoffs. so, it depends on where you are. but, the answer to your question is, it has had a very questionable effect. >> okay. >> paul, understand why the super pacs exist. they exist because there are limits on the am of money that individuals can give to individual candidates. in a primary that is $2500 and as a result, the candidates cannot raise as much...
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okay, mr. romney. just one more question. you have explained the change of heart that you had on the issue of abortion between your u.s. senate run in 1994 and today. but in that same senate run, you also said that you would be to the left of ted kennedy on gay rights were you elected. vice president have you also had a change of heart on that? if so, what change caused your change of heart on gay rights or do you think you're to the left of the late ted kennedy on the issue of gay rights? i'm asking these questions here in public as a sort of hail mary pass. obviously, mitt romney is never going to take these questions from me, but i don't know what the answer is to any of those questions, and thing they're important questions. and maybe somebody who gets to ask him a question somewhere will get some answers to them if they get asked. we could -- you can file them away. we could make flashcards out of the questions and in case he turns to you and said, yes, i'll answer a question, you could ask them. it's hard to get answers
okay, mr. romney. just one more question. you have explained the change of heart that you had on the issue of abortion between your u.s. senate run in 1994 and today. but in that same senate run, you also said that you would be to the left of ted kennedy on gay rights were you elected. vice president have you also had a change of heart on that? if so, what change caused your change of heart on gay rights or do you think you're to the left of the late ted kennedy on the issue of gay rights? i'm...
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mr. romney is not wising up. he made the same mistake when he tried to say that president obama had not said the word terror when he talked about the benghazi attack in the rose garden until the day after the attack. he did use the word. if you read the conservative blogs, that never happened. and that apparently was enough of a fact check for mitt romney. that's what he tried to use and turned out to be a humiliating gotcha attempt that failed before the largest possible audience. between 50-something million people watching him fail in a presidential debate. >> i'm the president. and i'm always responsible. and that's why nobody is more interested in finding out exactly what happened than i do. the day after the attack, governor, i stood in the rose garden and i told the american people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. that this was an act of terror. >> it's interesting the president just said something that in the day after the attack, he went to the rose garden and said this
mr. romney is not wising up. he made the same mistake when he tried to say that president obama had not said the word terror when he talked about the benghazi attack in the rose garden until the day after the attack. he did use the word. if you read the conservative blogs, that never happened. and that apparently was enough of a fact check for mitt romney. that's what he tried to use and turned out to be a humiliating gotcha attempt that failed before the largest possible audience. between...
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rick perry hit mitt romney with that last year. president obama's campaign hits mr. romney with it, too. >> they issued 125 million dollars of bonds. and out of that $125 million debt, they paid themselves almost $40 million. >> like a vampire. came in and sucked the life out of us. >> every time mitt romney has been hit with political criticism for that economic bomb that he and bain capital dropped on those steel workers, in part leaving the taxpayers to clean up the mess, every time he's been hit by that, his response has been the same. the response is, i wasn't there. i didn't do it. yes, mr. romney said he made the initial decisions about that company, but, you can't blame him for how it turned out because he was gone by the time it blew up. he was gone from bain after 1999. he went do go run the olympics. he was gone from bain after 1999 and the bankruptcy didn't happen until 2001. so you can't make him answer if that bankruptcy. you can't make him answer for anything at bain after 1999. that's what he's been saying this year about the criticism. that was the r
rick perry hit mitt romney with that last year. president obama's campaign hits mr. romney with it, too. >> they issued 125 million dollars of bonds. and out of that $125 million debt, they paid themselves almost $40 million. >> like a vampire. came in and sucked the life out of us. >> every time mitt romney has been hit with political criticism for that economic bomb that he and bain capital dropped on those steel workers, in part leaving the taxpayers to clean up the mess,...
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my whole family will be voting for mr. romney. and mr. rind. -- ryan. i'm a disabled veteran on fixed income, but my wife said we needed to send him money, so i did. i got a letter from him today but we are looking at today. he needs to get into office. we need change. >> that is can it from florida. he will be our last caller tonight. back on the floor one more time. >> more delegates from massachusetts, new york, and texas. as a new yorker, was there a line in the speech that mitt romney delivered that you'll take away this evening? >> more than a line. it was a message. a message of optimism. it reminded me of ronald reagan. also a message that remind me of bill clinton. the need to address our economic problems. when we combine and synthesize the best of ronald reagan and the clinton as candidates, that is what we saw here tonight. i think the country will respond to that. >> the massachusetts delegation. a line from the speech? governor romney and his history as a husband. ann romney was excellent. america needs someone of character and leadership.
my whole family will be voting for mr. romney. and mr. rind. -- ryan. i'm a disabled veteran on fixed income, but my wife said we needed to send him money, so i did. i got a letter from him today but we are looking at today. he needs to get into office. we need change. >> that is can it from florida. he will be our last caller tonight. back on the floor one more time. >> more delegates from massachusetts, new york, and texas. as a new yorker, was there a line in the speech that mitt...
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the president, mr. romney says, has presided over net job losses in his term, which mr. romney has said, should be judged from february 2009. not to state the obvious, but the whole world was pretty much falling apart in february of 2009, and yes that included the job market. we lost around 700,000 jobs that month alone. but there is good news for president obama. using romney's new measure, this is what the jobs record looks like since mr. obama's inauguration. this one does not include romney's new measure it's not that good. the lighter blue bar shows the negative numbers for the course of his presidency. however, thanks to romney's most recently declared standard of judgment, the one where he says it takes six months to a year to see the effect of new policies, mr. obama looks much, much better. see what happens if you give him a six-month grace period, voila, nearly 3 million jobs created since then and more than 3 million in the private sector. so take mr. romney up on his the "or year" part o on six months or a year, and the president's case for re-election looks
the president, mr. romney says, has presided over net job losses in his term, which mr. romney has said, should be judged from february 2009. not to state the obvious, but the whole world was pretty much falling apart in february of 2009, and yes that included the job market. we lost around 700,000 jobs that month alone. but there is good news for president obama. using romney's new measure, this is what the jobs record looks like since mr. obama's inauguration. this one does not include...
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he's struggling in the polls but he's done something nobody else has forced mr. romney to do. which is to get in the weeds of the problem of romney care and the liability he will face as nominee. the governor has continued to say, you know, states should be allowed to do what you want. what rick santorum says is no, what you fundamentally believe in and showed was that government run healthcare is okay. how can you make that contrast? mr. romney didn't have a good answer because the answer has been states should be able to do what they do and he's going to get caught. >> he goes back to his talking points. he cut 500 billion-dollar from medicare, i didn't. as if massachusetts had anything to do with medicare and floundering with talking points that aren't accurate. >> this was a important style distinction in what we saw. mitt romney says the system we have is quote/unquote pretty good. and santorum jumps on that aggressively and says you can't give the issue away. i'm your debate coach, you cannot go against barack obama and talk like that. >> jason, you were impressed with r
he's struggling in the polls but he's done something nobody else has forced mr. romney to do. which is to get in the weeds of the problem of romney care and the liability he will face as nominee. the governor has continued to say, you know, states should be allowed to do what you want. what rick santorum says is no, what you fundamentally believe in and showed was that government run healthcare is okay. how can you make that contrast? mr. romney didn't have a good answer because the answer has...
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romney got the news, mr. gingrich's super pac has bought up time for six million dollars worth of anti-mitt romney tv ads in florida. one of the reasons mitt romney was seen as the inevitable candidate on the republican side because of the so-called money primary. that is the way the beltway talks about it, the primary and the more important money primary. a candidate showing the ability to build a base of donors and raise money for the campaign. mitt romney won the money primary this year, early and hugely. but now it turns out thanks to citizens united there is no money primary anymore, it was cancelled. newt gingrich doesn't have a donor base, he hasn't proven any ability to raise money in state after state, event after event. newt gingrich it turns out only has to raise money with one family in nevada. the adelson family, casino money have given $10 million to newt gingrich's super pac. after citizens united the money is on tap. anybody can level the playing field in terms of money. all you need is one fu
romney got the news, mr. gingrich's super pac has bought up time for six million dollars worth of anti-mitt romney tv ads in florida. one of the reasons mitt romney was seen as the inevitable candidate on the republican side because of the so-called money primary. that is the way the beltway talks about it, the primary and the more important money primary. a candidate showing the ability to build a base of donors and raise money for the campaign. mitt romney won the money primary this year,...
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romney might be hiding something in his tax return. they have suggested mr. romney might be a felon for the way he handed over power of bain capital. have you asked them to change their tone when it comes to defining mr. romney. >> if you look at the overall trajectory of our campaign and the ads that i've approved and are produced by my campaign you'll see that we point out sharp differences between the candidates but we don't go out-of-bounds and when it comes to releasing taxes that's a precedent that was set decades ago-- including by governor romney's father. >> reporter: for weeks, the romney campaign has been calling on the president to disavow this ad made by a democratic outside group. the ad suggests mr. romney contributed to a woman's death from cancer because her husband lost his insurance five years earlier when romney's former firm closed his steel plant. >> i do not think mitt romney realizes what he's done to anyone. >> reporter: why not send a message to the top super pac supporting you and say "i think an ad like that is out-of-bounds." >> i
romney might be hiding something in his tax return. they have suggested mr. romney might be a felon for the way he handed over power of bain capital. have you asked them to change their tone when it comes to defining mr. romney. >> if you look at the overall trajectory of our campaign and the ads that i've approved and are produced by my campaign you'll see that we point out sharp differences between the candidates but we don't go out-of-bounds and when it comes to releasing taxes that's...
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but mr. romney is standing by his man recommending mr. mourdock as the one individual likely to tip the senate toward the republican party. >> there's so much at stake. i hope you'll downmi in supporting richard mourdock for u.s. senate. >> see how close they are? but do they seem like men who have a genuine interest in the victims of this horrifying crime? have they ever done anything to support women who may have been violated in this way? to follow that clown is the ring master himself, the man whose artificial appearance is only matched by the stupidity of his pronouncements. here was the latest, demanding the president release his academic history in exchange for a $5 million donation to charity. >> if he releases these records, it will end the question and, indeed, the anger of many americans. >> no, mr. trump. releasing those academic records will only fuel your racist anger because you know exactly what you're implying. so there you have it. trump, mourdock, and romney, a blue chip firm of fools comprising a bone head, a mutton he
but mr. romney is standing by his man recommending mr. mourdock as the one individual likely to tip the senate toward the republican party. >> there's so much at stake. i hope you'll downmi in supporting richard mourdock for u.s. senate. >> see how close they are? but do they seem like men who have a genuine interest in the victims of this horrifying crime? have they ever done anything to support women who may have been violated in this way? to follow that clown is the ring master...
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yes, there's the vice presidential pick for mr mr. romney. other than that, the candidates know what they need to be. by now, they ought to know what they're doing. they have been doing it for a while. they should have worked out the kinks. can you tell where i'm going with this? kinks remain. there seems to be one particularly kinky part of the mitt romney for president campaign they can't fix. they keep doing it over and over and over again wrong. they keep blowing it. i thing they should stop doing this. >> ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining the obama's failed foreign policy conference call. your host for today will now begin. >> hey, guys. it's amanda from the campaign. thanks for getting on the call. >> romney campaign does these conference calls allç the time. the candle in the wind muzach was one of the conference calls in april, the obama's fails foreign policy conference call. they called that specifically to rebutt an allegation from vice president biden that obama's foreign policy was going to be just like bush's policy,
yes, there's the vice presidential pick for mr mr. romney. other than that, the candidates know what they need to be. by now, they ought to know what they're doing. they have been doing it for a while. they should have worked out the kinks. can you tell where i'm going with this? kinks remain. there seems to be one particularly kinky part of the mitt romney for president campaign they can't fix. they keep doing it over and over and over again wrong. they keep blowing it. i thing they should...
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they were explaining that before mr. romney even lost. october 31st, campaign sources told cbs news super storm sandy stalled romney's momentum. a few days before the election, if you hadn't had the storm, there would have been more of a chance for the romney campaign to talk about the deficit. the blame the storm line has continued all through today especially with former mississippi governor haley barbour speaking on the "today" show. >> hurricane sandy saved barack obama's presidency. it broke the momentum romney had coming in the end of october. >> this is a narrative republicans are telling themselves, that the beltway media is also now starting to tell itself because they keep hearing republicans say it. it is not a theory born from reality. this is a checkable thing, emperical idea. their theory is mitt romney was on track to win this thing if it weren't for that blasted storm. this is something we can check. easy. let's start with this. we're all in agreement that the polls were correct despite all the nonsense ahead of the electi
they were explaining that before mr. romney even lost. october 31st, campaign sources told cbs news super storm sandy stalled romney's momentum. a few days before the election, if you hadn't had the storm, there would have been more of a chance for the romney campaign to talk about the deficit. the blame the storm line has continued all through today especially with former mississippi governor haley barbour speaking on the "today" show. >> hurricane sandy saved barack obama's...
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mrs. romney's plane was headed to l.a. but landed in denver where it was met with emergency vehicles on the runway. mitt romney not onboard. a spokeswoman wrote they were not injured. wrote on twitter all okay thank goodness. booed in an aarp event in new orleans. those in the audience did not like the comments when president obama's signature health care law should be repealed. >> the first step to a strong medicare is to repeal obama care. it represents the worst of both worlds. i had a feeling there would be mixed reaction. let me get into it. >> president obama spoke to the same person earlier via satellite. the claim by republicans that $760 billion is being cut from medicare to fund health care is simply not true. pat quinn had good news from joliet. but some of them there wanted to tell them something as well. the governor was in joliet to kick off construction on a $42 million transportation hub. but some state workers protested. they say they're not happy with pension cuts and deferred pay increases. stopped on th
mrs. romney's plane was headed to l.a. but landed in denver where it was met with emergency vehicles on the runway. mitt romney not onboard. a spokeswoman wrote they were not injured. wrote on twitter all okay thank goodness. booed in an aarp event in new orleans. those in the audience did not like the comments when president obama's signature health care law should be repealed. >> the first step to a strong medicare is to repeal obama care. it represents the worst of both worlds. i had a...
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. >> a pac had a meet this is week and mr. romney, governor romney, wants to take obama's job. he delivered remarks to ç apac this week. >> reporter: i'll make sure iran knows of the very real peril that awaits it if it becomes nuclear. ill will engage iran's neighbors. i will station multiple aircraft carriers and warships at iran's door. i will not delay imposing further crippling sanctions. i will not hesitate to fully implement the ones we already have. >> question, does romney's hard- line deter iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, more than obama's would? and what do you think of those remarks? >> i think without question if he were the president, it would deter iran. but he is not the president. all he is a political campaigner. having said that, the fact is that neither the israelis nor the americans expect or intend to start a war within the next couple months. the one of the main sanctions we hope to impose is on their central bank, and we haven't put that sanction into being. so our sanctions -- as the director of military intelligence said are having no effect and
. >> a pac had a meet this is week and mr. romney, governor romney, wants to take obama's job. he delivered remarks to ç apac this week. >> reporter: i'll make sure iran knows of the very real peril that awaits it if it becomes nuclear. ill will engage iran's neighbors. i will station multiple aircraft carriers and warships at iran's door. i will not delay imposing further crippling sanctions. i will not hesitate to fully implement the ones we already have. >> question, does...
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that was mr. romney speaking today in sparks, nevada. the most interesting thing about mitt romney making no sense and flailing on the basic question, dude, how's the economy, the most interesting thing when he says that the president made things worse, he knows that is not true. i'm not saying i can read his mind or that i surmise that he must know it's not true. what i mean it he has said, he has explained that he knows it's not true. >> you've also noted that there are signs of improvement on the horizon in the economy. how do you answer the president's argument that the economy is getting better in a general election campaign if you yourself are saying it's getting better? >> of course it's getting better. the economy always gets better after a recession, there is always a recovery. >> isn't that a hard argument to make, okay he inherited this recession, took steps to turn the economy around now we're seeing more jobs, but vote against him anyway? isn't that a hard argument to make, is that a stark enough contrast? >> have you got a
that was mr. romney speaking today in sparks, nevada. the most interesting thing about mitt romney making no sense and flailing on the basic question, dude, how's the economy, the most interesting thing when he says that the president made things worse, he knows that is not true. i'm not saying i can read his mind or that i surmise that he must know it's not true. what i mean it he has said, he has explained that he knows it's not true. >> you've also noted that there are signs of...
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mr. romney, you want to drug test people who get farm subsidies? >> people who are receiving welfare benefits, government benefits, we should make sure they are not using the benefits to pay for drugs. >> government benefits. you want to drug test bankers who got bailed out by money? how about all the executives of oil companies, oil companies still get $4 billion a year in tax subsidies. should they be drug tested? government officials get paid. all of congress, how about the supreme court justices, do you want to tell them personally, brought a cup with me. should all those people be drug tested since they get money from the government or is it just poor people you're talking about? how about every senior citizen in the country who receives social security benefits. >> government benefits, we should make sure they are not using the benefits to pay for drugs. >> a universal mandatory drug testing program for people who get social security. call grandma. we reached out to the romney campaign to find out which specific groups of people who receive g
mr. romney, you want to drug test people who get farm subsidies? >> people who are receiving welfare benefits, government benefits, we should make sure they are not using the benefits to pay for drugs. >> government benefits. you want to drug test bankers who got bailed out by money? how about all the executives of oil companies, oil companies still get $4 billion a year in tax subsidies. should they be drug tested? government officials get paid. all of congress, how about the...
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continuing from "the times," "mr. romney did not endorse the idea, but he seemed to like it." quoting from mr. romney, "you see, then he or she would understand that the policies they're putting in place have to encourage small business, make it easier for business to grow." however seriously or hypothetically or just for kicks, mitt romney is publicly entertaining doubts about president obama's qualifications to serve in the office that he now holds. he's wandering out loud whether he ought to change the constitution to make it harder for people whose backgrounds do not like mitt romney to run for office. and donald trump has become central to the romney campaign. he's given radio interviews for him in every state, while at the same time, mr. trump has resurrected the rattling claptrap about whether mr. obama was, in fact, born in the united states. whether he is, in fact, qualified to be president of the united states. before last night's event in las vegas, the romney campaign promised their candidate would speak up if donald trump raised the birtherism issue at that event
continuing from "the times," "mr. romney did not endorse the idea, but he seemed to like it." quoting from mr. romney, "you see, then he or she would understand that the policies they're putting in place have to encourage small business, make it easier for business to grow." however seriously or hypothetically or just for kicks, mitt romney is publicly entertaining doubts about president obama's qualifications to serve in the office that he now holds. he's...
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of all of these the romney one is the most important, how hard mr. romney is trying to show up his -- to shore up his standing with conservatives. john mccain never successfully did that in 2008. he still ended up getting the nomination. it is enot that you can't get te nomination without seeming like a red, red, red conservative fire breather, right in that does seem to be the weakness in his campaign right now and what he's working hardest to fix. mr. romney lost a number of contests to not only newt gingrich but rick santorum. the santorum thing is not a fluke. we put a national poll that rick santorum is leading. gallup, rick santorum is climbing fast as newt gingrich fades away. mr. santorum in second place ahead of mr. gingrich. the exit polling over the last month showing that it's the most conservative members of the republican base who are turning against mitt romney, and so now, having lost south carolina to newt gingrich, and a trio of states to rick santorum this past week, now you have mitt romney trying really hard to connect with the c
of all of these the romney one is the most important, how hard mr. romney is trying to show up his -- to shore up his standing with conservatives. john mccain never successfully did that in 2008. he still ended up getting the nomination. it is enot that you can't get te nomination without seeming like a red, red, red conservative fire breather, right in that does seem to be the weakness in his campaign right now and what he's working hardest to fix. mr. romney lost a number of contests to not...